Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... same ratio ( for there are supposed to be as many words collected by per ... century . By J. O. Halliwell . 2 vols . 8vo , London , 1847. " This ... no longer in use , or are not used in the same sense , and words which ✓are now used ...
... same ratio ( for there are supposed to be as many words collected by per ... century . By J. O. Halliwell . 2 vols . 8vo , London , 1847. " This ... no longer in use , or are not used in the same sense , and words which ✓are now used ...
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A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United ... sense it is applied especially to the Presbyterians , to denote their severe and mortified ap- pearance . Thus , beneath an old portrait of the seventeenth century ...
A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United ... sense it is applied especially to the Presbyterians , to denote their severe and mortified ap- pearance . Thus , beneath an old portrait of the seventeenth century ...
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A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United ... not manage the whooping- cough , but was , as he expressed it , " death on ... used in the newspapers , in speaking of a person's declining to be a candidate ...
A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United ... not manage the whooping- cough , but was , as he expressed it , " death on ... used in the newspapers , in speaking of a person's declining to be a candidate ...
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A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States John Russell Bartlett. Mad , in the sense of angry , is considered as a low word in this coun- try , and at the present day is never used except in very ...
A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States John Russell Bartlett. Mad , in the sense of angry , is considered as a low word in this coun- try , and at the present day is never used except in very ...
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